What's happening with New Manchester Walks

JANUARY 2019 TOURS

These tours are now live on sale with eventbrite. There will be some additions by the end of November.

2019 (Year of Peterloo)
January
• Wed 16 Jan Manchester’s Most Beautiful Buildings
Meet Central Library, St Peter’s Square, 11.30am.
Marvel at the architectural glories of Chepstow House, the Castlefield Free Library, the intricate designs on the Free Trade Hall, the perfect Golden Ratio proportions of the Friends’ Meeting House and the Gothic grandeur of the Town Hall. Just some of Manchester’s most beautiful buildings.

PETERLOO – Frustrated with the film? Underwhelmed with the Memorial? Then come on our walks!

Ed Glinert, the only Manchester tour guide who has worked with Mike Leigh and the great radical activist Paul Foot, has been talking, walking, reading, thinking, sleeping, writing about Peterloo, giving guided tours about Peterloo, giving lectures about Peterloo, for more than 30 years.

Next up, two new Peterloo tours on Sunday 18 November. See the film and then discover all the bits Mike Leigh left out! The first, “Before Peterloo”, at 11.30am from Central Library. And then, can you believe, at 2pm, “After Peterloo”, also from Central Library.

Ed Glinert has rooted out an astonishing array of stories connected with one of the defining events in English political history. Continue reading →

OUR ONE HUNDRED-PLUS EXPERT, ENLIGHTENING & ENTERTAINING TOURS

You’ve made a great choice, logging on to New Manchester Walks, the website of the city’s group of professional tour guides. We have crafted a unique body of walks, talks and tours covering every aspect of history in and around Manchester, the world’s first industrial city – the industrial strength city.

We run a regular programme of public walks (details on this website) and have devised bespoke tours on every subject imaginable – history, art, music, architecture, football, politics…
Here is a sample of some of our hundred-plus tours: Continue reading →

TOURS FOR TOURISTS & VISITORS

Welcome to Manchester, the capital of the North, the first city of the Industrial Revolution, the city where modern-day capitalism was created, communism researched, the atom split and the computer invented…THE industrial strength city.
Make your visit special with a tour led by New Manchester Walks, the city’s group of professional guides, We have devised a number of bespoke tours aimed not only at the thousands of visitors pouring into the city, but locals looking to unravel the city’s secrets.
• 7 Wonders of Manchester.
• 7 Manchester Landmarks for Football Fanatics.
• 7 Manchester Music Landmarks – from the Hacienda to Tony Wilson’s pad.
• 7 Politically Sound Manchester Landmarks.
We also have over a hundred detailed tours, covering everything – from the Pankhursts to George Best to L S Lowry to Coronation Street. Continue reading →

MIDLAND HOTEL – AT LAST A TOUR THAT DOESN’T TELL YOU ROLLS MET ROYCE HERE. ABOUT TIME

• Stop press. Ed Glinert has discovered shocking new information about the alleged meeting of Rolls and Royce at the Midland Hotel in 1904.
Interestingly, Rolls Royce’s own website fails to mention the Midland! This is part of our original, highly-entertaining and absurdly amusing tour of Manchester’s most famous hotel (after sumptuous refreshments…optional) one Sunday a month and some Monday lunchtimes.
• Book a private tour for your group! We catered for 60 very happy ladies from Wilmslow U3A recently. Continue reading →

MANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL FRINGE

Here’s a much-needed new venture: The Manchester Literature Festival Fringe. We will be celebrating the literature of Manchester and beyond all year round. Our first event will be a tour this summer of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Manchester on Sunday 29 July.

In October there will be a full showcase of tours.

The Manchester Literature Festival Fringe is the brainchild of Ed Glinert, much-published author with Penguin, HarperCollins, Random House and Bloomsbury. Continue reading →

THE PANKHURSTS: CALLING MANCHESTER SCHOOLS. BOOK A PANKHURST TOUR!

Having discovered that Manchester schools are now, at last, incorporating the wonderful story of how a Manchester family, the Pankhursts, led the campaign to gain women the vote, into their curriculum, we are hoping that you, school organisers, book a Pankhurst tour for older pupils with New Manchester Walks. Continue reading →

UNCOMFORTABLE ART * UNCOMFORTABLE HISTORY

Ed Glinert of New Manchester Walks is launching a new campaign to start protesting against the prominence of the wrong people on the streets of Manchester. It’s time to make the prominent art and statuary in Manchester more reflective of the city’s history of protest and civil rights. In this most left-wing of cities we have more statues of Tories than socialists; more colonialists than progressives.
The campaign begins with a new tour (please book with eventbrite), Uncomfortable Art, Uncomfortable History on Sunday 12 August at noon from the Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Gardens. The tour has been devised by Ed Glinert who has spent 35 years combating injustice in his hard-hitting journalism for City Life and Private Eye, and in books for Penguin, HarperCollins and Random House.Continue reading →

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BOOK A TALK WITH MANCHESTER’S WITTIEST PUBLIC SPEAKER: ED GLINERT

If you don’t fancy a walk, book a talk. What a great idea for your social club, U3A group, Probus set, National Trust outfit, local history society; to book New Manchester Walks’ Ed Glinert to give an illustrated talk on one of a huge variety of subjects, especially on Peterloo what with the 200th anniversary in 2019, for which Glinert has already been booked by the Lit & Phil, Central Library, the Portico Library, Hale WI… He had 65 people at Central Library for the Town Hall Murals recently and about 150 at Knutsford Methodist Church for Marx & Engels in Manchester. Continue reading →

If you plan to Visit Manchester, then tour Manchester with New Manchester Walks, the city’s leading walks, talks, cruises and coach tours company.

We will take you on the best tours around the great sights and historic sites of Manchester, the world’s first industrial city – the industrial strength city. Come with us to:

* Manchester Town Hall
* John Rylands Library
* Chetham’s and Manchester Cathedral.
* Gorton Monastery.
* Places where political history was made by the Pankhursts, Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx.
* Locations seen on Coronation Street.
* Stadiums and sights George Best and Matt Busby knew.
* Places the Smiths sang about, Anthony Burgess described and Lowry painted.

And on our canal cruise – complete with historic commentary – we take in the old docks, Salford Quays and MediaCity.